Improvement in apparatus for clipping the hair from horses



tinivted gaat" tutti tllite SALOM HENRY SALOM, OF LONDON, AND THOMAS FIELD, OF WES'IMINS'IER, GREAT BRITAIN; SAID THOMAS FIELD ASSIGNS HIS RIGHT TO SAID SALOM.

Letters Patent No. 90,877, dated Jane l, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN' APPARATUS FOR CLIPPING- THE HAIR FROM HORSES, 8cc.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern :,V

Be it known that we, SALoM HENRY SALoM, of Regent street, London, optician, and THOMAS FIELD, of Vine street, Westminster, machinist, both in the county of Middlesex, in the Kingdom of Great Britain, have .invented An Improved Apparatus or Instrument for Clipping or Shearing the Hair of Horses and other Animals i for which invention we have obtained a `grant ot' Letters Patent in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, dated the 13th day of March, 1868. .Y

We do now hereby declare the nature of the said invention to be fully described and set forth in and by the following description; that is to say Our invention consists of a segmental-'shaped metallic plate, the periphery of which s'cut so as to form a series of radiating teeth, resembling a comb.

Upon the surface we fix a shank or handle, nrade Aso as to rotate or oscillate upon a centre pin. 'lhe one end of this handle is formed with a socket, and into the socket we fix a metallic knife or cutter, so that when .the handle is moved it will carry the cutter or knife in a plane parallel to the comb-plate, the edge of the knife passing over the face ofthe teeth ofthe couib, so that the substance required to be cut between the teeth would be clipped or sheared by the knife in its passage, right and left. v

The comb being applied to the skin of any animal,

the hair or wool is raised, and passes between the teeth,

andthe knife being caused to rotate over the teeth, cuts, clips, or sheais the hair or Wool.

A handle is attached to the comb, for the greater convenience of handling it during the operation.

In order more clearly to illustrate the nature of our invention, and'how the saine is constructed and acts, we have appended to this description the accompanying drawings, which show the mode of forming and actuating the same.

Figure l is a plan of our instrument, and

Figure 2 is a side view ofthe saine. l

(t is the metallic segmental plate, having the radiating teeth b b, shaped so as to form the comb.

c, the handle, attached for convenience in holding it.

d is the radiating handle, centred and turning upon pin .'t, having its end, e, formed with a socket, into which the knife or cutter f is inserted, and held by the nipping and tightening-screw g, the face t h, of the comb, heilig brought to a cutting edge.

vij are studs to regulate the throw of theiknife, the stud j being screwed into the plat-e a in such a manner that it can be quickly and easily removed, and permit the full sweep of the cntterf beyond the edge of the steel plate a, when the cutter f can be quickly removed, if blunt, and in'its`placea fresh cutter substi- `tilted.

The comb being applied to the hide of an animal,

`the teeth pass between the hair or.wool, raising and separating it; the knife f is then caused' to rotate from right to left or left to right, and cuts or shears away the hair or wool between the teeth ofthe comb.

' Having nowdescribed the nature of our invention, and how the saine is formed and acts, we wish it understood that what we claim, and 'wish secured by the Witnesses:

J AMES WRIGHT, Bot/i112 Capt/tall Court,

London. l

THOMAS Fox, 

